The more that they all moved down the stairs, the more that they felt an oppressive darkness. It was like they had walked somewhere that had not seen the light fro too long. Like a cave that had once been open to the sun but a cave in closed it off.
This feeling made the hairs on their arms stand on end. But most of all, Crim was acting carefully. He was showing signs of worry when they moved. Even Devi made his way closer to Clark just in case.
On the positive side, the group realized that they had more space when they moved all the way down the stairs. Ella was the first to show off the reason why. She had raised the torch even higher and even lit the second one she had to spread the light that they had so they could all see.
"So they made the ground beneath them the quarry for their stone." they could all see the condensed stone that the large temple was made of. But they could now see the lines where stone was cut and broken to make such a thing.